Network model and four-terminal transport in minimally twisted bilayer graphene
Abstract
We construct a two-channel scattering model for the triangular network of valley Hall states in interlayer-biased minimally twisted bilayer graphene from symmetry arguments and investigate electronic transport in a four-terminal setup. In the absence of forward scattering, a single phenomenological parameter tunes the network between a triplet of chiral zigzag modes and pseudo-Landau levels. Moreover, the chiral zigzag modes give rise to robust Aharonov-Bohm resonances in the longitudinal conductance in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field or an in-plane electric field. Interestingly, we find that when both a magnetic field and an in-plane electric field are applied, the resonances of different zigzag branches split depending on their propagation direction relative to the in-plane electric field. We further demonstrate that while the Hall response vanishes in the chiral zigzag regime, a finite Hall response is obtained without destroying the Aharonov-Bohm resonances in the longitudinal response, by weakly coupling different zigzag branches, which also gives rise to Hofstadter physics at accessible magnetic fields.
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@article{arxiv.2107.04812,
title = {Network model and four-terminal transport in minimally twisted bilayer graphene},
author = {Christophe De Beule and Fernando Dominguez and Patrik Recher},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.04812},
year = {2021}
}
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18 pages, 16 figures; published version